GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 600543
PolicyKit unlock button text appears dissociated from key icon
Last modified: 2019-02-23 02:45:32 UTC
On users-admin, there is a key icon, which is supposed to authenticate the administrator. Beside it is text that says "Click to make changes." The text seems out of place. It is hard to determine that the text on the right of the key icon is what describes what it does. What would be easier to understand would be having the icon and text on the authenticate button. However, GNOME is veering away from that convention. Because of this new trend, it could be better to simply have the "Allow/Prevent Changes" text on the authenticate button. From https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/470743
The "Click to make changes" is misleading as the user would usually click on the wording rather than icon next to it! [this is similar to how it was confusing to the user when notifications displayed "Click icon to see more info"]. And all that the icon does is to unlock the settings. More ideal would be to combine the icon-button and the non-reactive text into : - a button with text "Unlock Settings" + the key icon [which is not displayed if user has default settings , button-icons set to false] - With the button's tooltips saying "Administrator password required to unlock settings" (In reply to comment #0) > What would be easier to understand would be having the icon and text on the > authenticate button. However, GNOME is veering away from that convention. On a side-note: Gnome is not veering away from any convention regarding icons ;)
policykit-gnome is not under active development anymore. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/policykit-gnome/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather reactivate the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.